ROCKFORD – One of four candidates for Rock Valley College president has dropped out of the running.

RVC officials said Wednesday that Laura Urban, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Gateway Community and Technical College in Kentucky, has taken a new job. The college cancelled a community forum for her that was to be held Monday.

Urban was a finalist for a job as president of Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical in Red Wing and Winona, which was expected to name a new president this week.

Elizabeth Burmaster, president of Nicolet College in Rhinelander, Wis., appeared Tuesday at the first community meet the candidates forum.

Two more are scheduled 6 to 8 p.m. at the RVC Student Center Atrium on Thursday with remaining candidates John Hogan, associate vice president, Ivy Tech System, Indiana and on Wednesday, March 26, with Mike Mastroianni, RVC interim president.